Malcador

Hm, I rather liked Niko, didn't find him to be an **** to people that didn't warrant it.

Switching to and from protagonists does sound nifty.

So after the power outage, we're trying to turn things back on - servers and such. Generally this is fate's response.

I could, but I didn't so deal with it if you can. I got out fine, was kind of neat to watch the rain get whipped around with the wind, as expected a streetcar broke down on the line so I was stuck for a bit. Lucky though, I could have been stuck in an elevator or a subway like some people were for hours. I think they've got them all now, though. As for drainage, I have no idea what is going on, it is about triple the last daily record and is akin to a month's worth of rain in a few hours - so it may just be rate of source exceeds rate of sink. Then again the infrastructure in this city is overloaded and shoddy in places, so that also might contribute.

100mm of rain have crippled my city, power died in my office building and other parts of town. Major road ways are flooded too. Impressive really

Need NSFW tags, I guess.

Yep, Djimon Hounsou.

Since I've been working I've never really taken more than a week off, but in school I used to enjoy summers free. Though I suppose that was wasted time at least the 4 months off after each term in University. Do have next week off work, though I've not much planned other than tackling my GOG backlist and some programming of any sort.

Ballistic resistant books with trauma Kindle plates ?

Talking about old PC hardware with a coworker buddy, I miss the Turbo button and the clock speed display on towers. Though why it worked backwards on my 386EX I'll never now, though I suppose it does make sense, reading back on it . Good times back then. Also, summer sucks.

Did he burst into tears ?

Strike Suit Zero it's ok for Ace Combat in Space, I suppose. Not sure what's with the wannabe Homeworld and Freespace 2 music, but it's not bad Hah, ok, "The soundtrack is developed by Paul Ruskay, composer of the original Homeworld soundtrack." Well that flows, then.

That'd be a flechette at that diameter, no ? Scary thing those. Still I think the person that saw an WW1 pistol in a shop here in Canada and ran out screaming takes the cake.

Wow that's pretty vile.

It's a bit bull**** that you even have to do this though - in the example just submit when they assault you for no reason - as how the hell do you know they're not a cop or are just gone insane and trying to defend yourself is fairly natural. Again, a problem with approach, where too many watched NYPD Blue or something. Funnier still is the cops just say 'Sorry' and shrug it off when really they should be publicly dismissed and shamed for deciding a violent takedown when they have bad ID was a good idea. But you are right though, when some meshback cop decides to take you down, you'd might as well submit. See the G20 in Toronto for cops doing shady things. Ignore 'rioters' wrecking Yonge street, rough up people sitting down when clearing Queen's Park, run their detention center like something out of WW2 Japan or even silly **** like rustling people walking a block from the secure zone. That and the convenient loss of records, saying that the victim of an assault is unreliable as he couldn't tell who was beating him, etc. etc.

That is pretty cool, they should make their goal. Always liked the story of Sierra.

I still don't get hate PMs. I guess I need to be more snide.

Hm, a hive mind here, I don't know. Generally it's wishy-washy "I like their games but they do have silly stuff" for the most part. Maybe I am not looking closely. Or have a higher threshold for hatred

And the Syrian army can't crush these fools ?

If I recall he was physically tackled, not everyone is as compliant as you when that happens I guess. It is somewhat understandable to be a tad annoyed at being roughed up by people too dumb to actually ID you. Did remind me of this funny case http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/21/bc-vpd-alleged-assault-yao-wei-wu.html

This place isn't all that suitable for it, really. Too nice.

Resisting arrest, maybe ? They jumped a guy thinking he was some other guy, he understandably took exception and struggled a bit and slapped him with that. I assume a judge chucked that out though.

Probably only difference is the number of bullets they'd put in you But that is a good point, I imagine corruption or quality would vary between PDs.

Testbed for the Space gun that Bull fellow was working on before he got himself killed by Mossad/CIA/KGB/Iraqis/MI6. 16 inch US Navy gun modified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

Not my photo, but still pretty cool. HARP gun in Barbados